Santos, who refuses to resign over his mind-blowing amount of lies, will now sit on the Science, Space & Technology and Small Business Committees.
Except absolutely none of that is true; Santos invented an entire fake resumé and persona to get elected. Nevertheless, he is ignoring the deafening chorus of calls for him to resign. And instead of shunning him, House Republicans have given him not one but two actual committee seats: on the Science, Space & Technology and Small Business committees,
“We will find a way to make him add value to [the committee],” Rep. Roger Williams , chair of the Small Business Committee, told Axios.that denying Santos his committee seats will come back to bite them in the ass if and when the press discovers that other congressmen have lied about things, too. True, I guess!
I’d been wondering all day, since embattled House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday morning that Santos would in fact be getting committee seats, which committees Republicans would have the gall to put this widely mocked, essentially fictional character on. These two seats, I suppose, make sense: Having a pathological liar on the House Science Committee is well in line with the GOP’s
, and the Small Business Committee does seem like a perfectly ironic place for a career grifter who reported
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